Andrew Gimson, writing in the June 8 issue of the British magazine the Spectator:

The British monarchy is ridiculous and the Queen will probably be the last of her line to reign over us. For all her sense of duty, she has never known how to win her people's love, and she is disastrously resistant to change. She has lost her empire, and the younger members of her family are a catastrophe, unfit to succeed her because they are...